Emergency Landing for American Airlines flight departing from Medellin

The morning flight Medellin (Rionegro Airport) - Miami, flight 924 was forced to perform an emergency landing today, saturday, around 10:30 a.m. when one of its engines reported some problems.

No casualties or injures were reported and the emergency landing and evacuation was successful.

Link to El Tiempo´s report:

http://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/antioquia/supera-emergencia-avion-de-...

By ColombiaBoard on Jan 3, 2009, 08:12 in Friendly Talkzone.

Paisa/Calena/Luver says on Jan 3, 2009, 08:22: My worst nightmare in a Colombian airport for I do not see hardly ANY rescue vehicles and I wonder if they even carry the latest foam and fire retarding devices. Let me restate that, my worst nightmare in ANY airport period! "PAY ATTENTION! I wonder if that person knows that when we push the FUNNY button, its because we are reading something outrageous, trying to be cynical, derogatory, sarcastic and/or obnoxious!" 0 funny, 0 helpful.

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